In “Embers of the Hands,” historian Eleanor Barraclough digs deep into the ways that the Vikings loved, traveled and even ...

Grand Magus’s JB Christoffersson, Wardruna’s Einar Selvik and mediaeval history lecturer Simon Trafford explain why heavy ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A ...

a group of modern-day Vikings is preparing to celebrate the reason for the season with the annual UllrGrass festival. The beer and bluegrass event, named in honor of the Norse god of winter ...

The people we call Vikings mostly weren ... of the Hands,” her survey of Norse life outside the longboat. Even so, she continues, “The ‘Age Roughly From 750-1100 C.E. During Which Those ...

Wardruna are returning to the heart of winter with new album, Birna (She-Bear). Central to Wardruna’s sound is Einar Selvik’s fascination with instruments from the past and their uncanny ability to ...

It was an un-fire-gettable night in Lerwick this week as their world-famous fire festival filled the streets with flames and ...

This means that Scandinavian immigrants had already settled in the region before the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings settled in present-day England. Centuries later, during the Viking Age, Scandinavian ...

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...